Time Team (1994)

14x13 Bodmin Moor, Cornwall - In the Shadow of the Tor

In The Shadow Of The Tor. The Team descend on the bleak, beautiful landscape of Bodmin Moor to face one their biggest challenges yet. The dig aims to date a possible Bronze Age village of stone houses. But alongside the village is a vast and mysterious 300-metre-long stone structure. It's likely to be much older than Bronze Age but no one knows what it might have been. Could it be the biggest burial mound in England? The diggers battle appalling weather to unearth archaeological relics that take them back 7,000 years, when Stone Age man stopped hunting and gathering and settled down to farm the land. In a makeshift lab another investigation is underway involving test tubes and microscopes. By analysing the soil and the remains of tiny bugs, the scientists begin to build up a picture of a once lush, forested expanse, while also seeking to unravel how Bodmin Moor changed from a land of milk and honey into the windswept landscape it is today. Meanwhile, out in the water-logged tre

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Tony Robinson Tony Robinson As: Self - Presenter
Carenza Lewis Carenza Lewis As: Herself
Raksha Dave Raksha Dave As: Self - Field Archeologist
Phil Harding Phil Harding As: Self - Field Archaeologist
Mick Aston Mick Aston As: Self - Landscape Archaeologist
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In The Shadow Of The Tor. The Team descend on the bleak, beautiful landscape of Bodmin Moor to face one their biggest challenges yet. The dig aims to date a possible Bronze Age village of stone houses. But alongside the village is a vast and mysterious 300-metre-long stone structure. It's likely to be much older than Bronze Age but no one knows what it might have been. Could it be the biggest burial mound in England? The diggers battle appalling weather to unearth archaeological relics that take them back 7,000 years, when Stone Age man stopped hunting and gathering and settled down to farm the land. In a makeshift lab another investigation is underway involving test tubes and microscopes. By analysing the soil and the remains of tiny bugs, the scientists begin to build up a picture of a once lush, forested expanse, while also seeking to unravel how Bodmin Moor changed from a land of milk and honey into the windswept landscape it is today. Meanwhile, out in the water-logged tre


Certification: TV-G

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Aired: 08 April, 2007 at 6:00 pm

Language: English

Country: United Kingdom

Runtime: 45m

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Cast

Tony Robinson

Tony Robinson

Self - Presenter

Carenza Lewis

Carenza Lewis

Herself

Raksha Dave

Raksha Dave

Self - Field Archeologist

Phil Harding

Phil Harding

Self - Field Archaeologist

Mick Aston

Mick Aston

Self - Landscape Archaeologist

John Gater

John Gater

Self - Geophysicist

Stewart Ainsworth

Stewart Ainsworth

Self - Landscape Investigator

Victor Ambrus

Victor Ambrus

Self - Historical Illustrator

Henry Chapman

Henry Chapman

Self - Surveyor

Helen Geake

Helen Geake

Self - Anglo-Saxon Specialist

Francis Pryor

Francis Pryor

Self - Bronze Age Specialist

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